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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 99, September 6, 2001 ]

DECLARING THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2001 AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER AS “AGRICULTURAL JOURNALISM WEEK”

WHEREAS, agriculture is one of the key components in winning the war against poverty;

WHEREAS, greater public awareness of agriculture through agricultural journalism helps boost the development of Philippine agriculture;

WHEREAS, there is a need to focus more attention on the important role played by agricultural journalism in national economic development.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare in the Second Week of September 2001 and every year thereafter as “Agricultural Journalism Week”.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and one.

(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALBERTO G. ROMULO
Executive Secretary

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